PROCEEDINGS 



OF 



THE ROYAL SOCIETY* 



May 2, 1889. 



Professor G. G. STOKES, D.C.L., President, in the Chair. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered 

 for them. 



In pursuance of the Statutes the names of the Candidates recom- 

 mended for election into the Society were read from the Chair as 

 follows : — 



Aitken, John. 

 Ballard, Edward, M.D. 

 Basset, Alfred Barnard, M.A. 

 Brown, Horace T., F.C.S. 

 Clark, Latimer, C.E. 

 Cunningham, Professor David 



Douglas, M.B. 

 Fletcher, Lazarus, M.A. 

 Hemsley, William Botting, A.L.S. 



Hudson, Charles Thomas, M.A. 

 Hughes, Professor Thomas 



McKenny, M.A. 

 Poulton, Edward B., M.A. 

 Sollas, Professor William John- 

 son, D.Sc. 

 Todd, Charles, M.A. 

 Tomlinson, Herbert, B.A. 

 Yeo, Professor Gerald P., M.D. 



Professor Georg Friedrich Julius Arthur Auwers, Foreign Member 

 (elected 1879), signed the obligation in the Charter Book and was 

 admitted into the Society. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Note on the Effect produced by Conductors in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of a Wire on the Rate of Propagation of 

 Electrical Disturbances along it, with a Determination of 

 this Rate." By J. J. Thomson, M.A., F.R.S., Cavendish 

 Professor of Experimental Physics, Cambridge. Received 

 April 1, 1889. 



In a paper on " The Resistance of Electrolytes to the Passage of 

 very rapidly Alternating Currents" ('Roy. Soc. Proc.,' vol. 45, 



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